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HEMICERAS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
deornaia. 
zula. 
losa. 
pallidula. 
ovalis. 
egregia. 
ciena. 
oleagina. 
stigmata. 
nebulosa. 
flavcscens. 
punctata. 
panamensis. 
ray along the lower cell-margin and subterminally; transverse lines notched, the exterior one almost only 
marked by vein-dots; indistinct blurred dots at the cell-end. Hindwing white with a distinct dark brown 
marginal line and stigma. Very widely distributed from Mexico to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. 
H. deomata Wkr. ( = walkeri Schs.) (156 e) is marked like sabis, but the colour is a monotonous 
brown with a slight bronze shine, hindwing dusted brown. Mexico. 
H. zula Sells. (156 e) is very similar to deomata, but the female has pectinated antennae, and the 
interior transverse line is more angular; forewing greyish-brown with a silky gloss, lighter in the costal- 
marginal part, a dark brown shadow from the lower cell-angle to the inner margin, dark brown shadowy 
spots are before the distal margin. Hindwing greyish-brown, whitish in the disc, stigma greyish-brown, not 
contrasting. Costa Rica. 
H. losa Drc. (lepida Schs., carmelita Maass.) (156 e). Forewing light violettish-brown, strewn with 
red-brown; behind the undulate brown interior line follows a darker shadow bending down towards the inner 
margin as far as the anal angle, and behind the indistinct dark cell-end streak a brown shadow to the distal 
margin, which widens here from the apex to the inner angle; a dentate subterminal shadow behind the post¬ 
median line which is composed of black vein-dots. Hindwing whitish, veins, margin, and stigma brown. 
Costa Rica to Colombia. 
H. pallidula Guen. (156 e) is one of the most common and widely distributed species; forewdng light 
yellow with a feeble brass lustre, dusted with violettish-brown in the inner-marginal half and along the 
distal margin; the transverse lines only coherent below the cell, the interior one is quite absent above it, 
the exterior one marked by vein-dots which are partly white-centred, 3 white dots in the cell-end. Inner margin 
strongly dentate. Head white, thorax violet. Hindwing light brownish, without a stigma. Mexico to Brazil. 
The larva ischestnut-brown with 2 yellow dorsal bands ending in a red cone on the 11th segment ; 3 white 
lateral lines, in the lowest are the black spiracles, the last segment is black mixed with white. It pupates 
between leaves which it spins together. 
H. ovalis Schs. (156 f). Forewing silvery grey, strewn darker, the fine light brown dentate transverse 
lines marked on the veins by dark dots; a large oval yellow spot in the cell is crossed by the interior line; 
distal margin shaded darker grey. Hindwing white, brownish on the veins and margin, stigma dark brown 
or light grey. Brazil. 
H. egregia Dogn. Forewing chestnut-brown with a pink tinge and a bronze shine, with 2 faded, 
more yellowish transverse bands scarcely contrasting with the ground-colour, an interrupted one in the middle 
and a curved one subterminally; the transverse lines between these bands are formed by black vein-dots. 
Hindwing light bronze brown, whitish basally. Ecuador. 
H. aersa Dogn. Greenish olive with a bronze shine, lighter basally and at the distal margin, with 
2 darkened bands to the margin and anal angle; transverse lines red-brown with black, white-centred vein- 
dots, also a subterminal row of hardly visible vein-dots and 2 indistinct blotches at the cell-end; inner margin 
twice deeply dentate and cut out before the anal angle. Hindwing greyish-white, veins and margin darkened, 
without a stigma. Expanse of wings: 46 mm. Colombia. 
H. oleagina Dogn. resembles aena and egregia, less bronzed, and with a contrasting brown stigma on 
the white hindwing which is brownish at the margin; a reddish-yellow spot mixed with violet is before the 
exterior row of dots in the inner-marginal excision, the colour being otherwise greenish olive as in aena. 
South-Eastern Peru. 
H. stigmata Dogn. (156 f). Forewing coloured like aena, hindwing somewhat lighter and with a brown 
stigma which is absent in aena; also very similar to nigricosta. Expanse of wings: 45 mm. Bolivia. 
H. nebulosa Schs. Forewing reddish-yellow, strewn with brown, shaded grey basally and along the 
inner margin, from a grey cell-end streak a grey shadow extends to the distal margin and as far as the 
apex; transverse lines marked by rows of dots, a dentate brown line behind the exterior line; inner margin 
not dentate. Hindwing brown, margin and stigma still darker. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. French Guiana. 
H. flavescens Schs. (156f). Forewing bright dark yellow in the basal third and along the costal 
margin as far as the apex, the rest lilac brown, apically strewn with black and grey; 2 black dots before 
the centre are connected by a fine violet shadow, a dark grey spot at the cell-end with a smaller one above 
it and before it; the exterior transverse line is composed of black and grey vein-dots connected at the inner 
margin by a fine dark line; the excision before the anal angle is bordered with brown. Hindwing whitish, 
yellowish-brown at the margin. Similar to pallidula. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. French Guiana. 
H. punctata Dogn. (157 d) is a large yellowish-brown species, dusted dark brown in the median area 
especially at the costal margin, the rows of black dots broadly bordered with yellowish on both sides, a dark 
notched shadow before the light undulate line; 2 black dots at the cell-end. Hindwing whitish with a brownish 
margin, without a stigma. Ecuador, Colombia. — panamensis /. n. (157 d) has constantly darker brown 
hind wings. Panama. 
